The convicted Oklahoma City bomber will be formally sentenced to death Thursday in the wake of his lawyers' failure to convince a federal judge to give him a new trial. The lawyers argued that the jury was tainted by a combination of pretrial publicity and overly prejudicial testimony.
McVeigh Rebuffed
The convicted Oklahoma City bomber will be formally sentenced to death Thursday in the wake of his lawyers' failure to convince a federal judge to give him a new trial. The lawyers argued that the jury was tainted by a combination of pretrial publicity and overly prejudicial testimony.